Large and Rare Collection of Galley Proofs, Some from Rare Sefarim

Large and Rare Collection of Galley Proofs, Some from Rare Sefarim

• Title page of Sefer Iyov with a commentary by Rabbi Yitzchak b"r Shlomo HaKohen. Constantinople, Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino Press, 1545. Title page and leaf [6] only. Poor condition, lacks and damage to the text. Pasted on paper for preservation, with text completion by photocopy.
• Leaf from Tractate Yevamot, [Pesaro, 1509.]
• Leaf from Tractate Shabbat. [Venice, c. 1540.]
• Final leaf from Tractate Berachot (known as "Hilchot Berachot"). Prague, 1728. Important edition printed by the gaon Rabbi Yehonatan Eibeschütz, av beit din of Ah"u.
• Final leaf from Sefer Goren Nachon by Rabbi Shlomo ibn Gabriol. [Lunéville, 1807.]
• Final leaf from Divrei Chachamim V'Chidotam [Yasnitz, 1726.] Originally printed in several editions, with substantially different content. Rare edition, listed in Mif'al HaBibliographiah according to a copy in a private library.
• Final leaf from Sefer Nachalat Shivah and Mahadura Batra. [Furth, 1724.]
• Final leaf from Sefer Tur Orach Chaim im Beit Yosef. [Venice, 1566.] Early edition of the Beit Yosef.
• Double leaves from Rash"i's commentary on the Torah. Early, unidentified edition. Many copies, some printed on only one side.
• Two excerpts from the Ramba"m's Mishneh Torah, about half of leaf 729 [Venice, Justinian Press, 1550.]
• Group of leaves from Tzarei HaYagon by Rabbi Shem-Tov Falkirah. [Cremona, 1557]. Leaves 6-16, 18-19. (The sefer originally contained 20 leaves, so this is most of the work.) Gloss on page 12b in Yemenite script: "Rabbi Yitzchak HaKattan said, 'The language of the print is primary, as for the mistakes, I beg forgiveness."
• Group of leaves from Sefer Derashot Rabbi Yehishua ibn Shuib, including an excerpt from the colophon. [Constantinople, 1523.]
• Leaves 73, 76 from Matzat Shmurim by Rabbi Natan Shapira. [Venice, 1660.]
• Leaves 4-16 from Sefer Masoret HaBrit HaGadol by Rabbi Meir Angel. [Mantua, 1622.]
• Leaves 284-300 from Sefer Yalkut Shimoni with the Brit Avraham commentary. [Livorno, 1650.]
• Leaves 8-18 about half of Sefer Akeidat Yitzchak by Rabbi Yitzchak Aramah. [Salonika, 1522.] Handwritten references.
• Leaves 102-103 from Sefer Levi'at Chen by Rabbi Emanuel Benvento. [Mantua, 1557.]
• Leaf 50 from Sefer Midrash Tanchuma. [Mantua, 1623.]
• Leaves 226-267 from Sefer Beit Moed by Rabbi Menachem Rava of Padua. [Venice, 1605.]
• Leaf 129 from Sefer Zemirot Yisrael Part III - Olat Chadash by Rabbi Yisrael Najara.
• Leaves 152-153 from Sefer Tzachut in Sefer Dikdukim. [Venice, 1546.]
• [6] leaves and partial leaves from Sefer Sha'arei Dura. [Constantinople, 1553.] From the press of Shmuel ben Chaim Helitz from the printer's family in Krakow, who, it is told, converted to Christianity and subsequently returned to Judaism.
• Leaf from a Yiddish-language Tana"ch, with "an apology from the editor" Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Frankel, and the "Table of Haftarot." [Amsterdam, 1682.]
• Leaf [2] from an illustrated Passover haggadah. [Furth, 1755.] One of the pictures was printed backwards (which is also the case the the copy scanned in the National Library).
• Leaves 25, 28, 33, 36 from Sefer Mekitz Ben Chai by Rabbi Avraham Yosef Kaniti. [Constantinople, 1757.]
• Leaves 1-7 from Sefer HaShe'arim - Ateret Shlomo by the Maharsha"l, with laws of ritual slaughter and examination. [Lublin, 1599.] These seven leaves are the last ones in the sefer, printed here with new pagination.
• [7] of the final leaves from Sefer Yessod Olam by Rabbi Yitzchak b"r Yosef HaYisraeli. Berlin, 1777. These [7] leaves are unnumbered at the end of the sefer (without the tables). These leaves do not appear in all copies.
• Leaves 1-2 from Sefer Yad Aharon Even HaEzer Part II by Rabbi Aharon Elfandri. [Izmir, 1766.]
• Leaf from an unidentified sefer with an illustration of three crowns and the "The king will desire your beauty." [Venice, late 1600s]. Signature by Rabbi Yitzchak ben Zimrah, the Ridbaz.
• Leaf [5] from Sefer Nachalat Tzvi by Rabbi Tzvi Tochfirer. [Venice, 1660.]
• [2] leaves from Sefer HaShorashim by the Rada"k. [Constantinople, 1513.]
• Leaf 118 (the final leaf) from Sefer Shevilei Emunah by Rabbi Yitzchak Aldabi. [Amsterdam, 1627.] Among the first Hebrew books printed in Amsterdam.
• Excerpt from a leaf from Sefer Derashot Rabbi Yehoshua Ibn Shuib. [Constantinople, 1623.]
• Leaves 62-63 from Sefer Derech Chochmah by Rabbi Yehudah Leib Pochovitzer. [Frankfurt am Oder, 1843.]

Various sizes and conditions.